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by nytesky 3y ago
My point is that most people don't consider externalities when deciding on their transit. Sitting in your car is far more comfortable than navigating smelly and dirty transit with unstable individuals roaming. Yes transit is safer, bu
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by nytesky 3y ago
Autonomous driving is not a core business for Google at this point: almost all profits come from ads, some good chunk of revenues from GSuite and cloud, but autonomous driving is orthogonal to the rest of their business. They have achieved
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by nytesky 3y ago
I was a huge proponent of urban planning and smart growth, loved trains. But I feel the pandemic has upended any momentum for public transit for a generation. Less frequent commmutes make long drives more tolerable and parking more affordab
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by nytesky 3y ago
I suspect that is more a function of Googles deep pockets. The other players are putting major eggs in self driving, for Google it’s a hobby.
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by nytesky 3y ago
Warm show? I admittedly haven’t watched many episodes, but they all seem somewhat casually cruel to one another, and not in a loving way you may tease a friend. I always felt the stereotypes were truly making fun of geek/nerds, and so
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by nytesky 3y ago
I think it’s mostly true for modern usage. Powering off a laptop doesn’t fully disconnect power, because the power button is not a true switch but just signals to some power management hardware which is ALWAYS on as long as there is battery
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by nytesky 3y ago
Location dependent encryption was a feature of the first season of Agents of Shield.
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by nytesky 3y ago
There is no export function. That’s a huge drawback. And it doesn’t easily import photos at least not recent ones, I assumed it would have today’s photos readily available.
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by nytesky 3y ago
Oh yeah I thought he was taking about a real product, but a classic SNL callback was too hard to resist. I hope it didn’t violate HN rules.
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by nytesky 3y ago
Don’t you mean Colon Blow? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku42Iszh9KM
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by nytesky 3y ago
The krugman coop story: https://slate.com/business/1998/08/baby-sitting-the-economy....
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by nytesky 3y ago
I think that logic is usually applied to deflation and why it is so insidious (wait to spend and tomorrow will be even cheaper, grinding economy to a halt). The inverse for inflation seems possible, but somewhat flawed because you will need
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by nytesky 3y ago
Yeah I got an $80 Chromebook because my kids are breaking one semi annually. Don’t need it now, but there will be a night when they need on and theirs is DOA. Expiring 2029 will get them to college, so buying now seemed worthwhile.
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by nytesky 3y ago
I have two questions. BNPL seem to be about 4 weeks — isn’t that about the grace period for a paid off credit card? If anything I thinking you charge at the beginning of a cycle, you get 7 weeks? Am I misunderstanding? I heard on Planet M
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by nytesky 3y ago
I honestly thought that Tesla made a version of their sedan which had 4 motors -- one for each wheel. When I looked into it, all I can find is that the CyberTruck should have 4 motors. Wasn't there a quad and duel version of the seda
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by nytesky 3y ago
I remember reading over breakfast cereal in the morning, and I won a quiz bowl competition because I had read about buckminster fullerene (buckyball form of carbon).
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by nytesky 3y ago
Knew it had to be Benny Hill before I clicked. Yackty-sax indeed.
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by nytesky 3y ago
Really? These two did not do the technical work but hired, managed, and fund raised. They won’t necessarily be able to attract similar technical talent because they no longer have the open non profit mission not the lottery ticket startup
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by nytesky 3y ago
THANK YOU! I tried to find that exact clip, but the versions of Change Bank I saw truncated it.
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by nytesky 3y ago
So he was looking to build his own AI chips with a company he owned and supply them to OpenAI? And enlist SoftBank for funding? Isn’t this very similar to Adam Neumans tactics?
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by nytesky 3y ago
They lose $20k per truck but will make it up on volume! Seriously what is the origins of the this joke? https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2007/11/we-apos...
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by nytesky 3y ago
My knee jerk reaction is to dismiss this. But in the 60s Detroit was the tech capital of America and California was for movie stars, beatniks, and farmers.
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by nytesky 3y ago
But they still aren’t “profitable” yet in having positive net profits, right? What is their path there?
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by nytesky 3y ago
Layoffs at Block and PayPal, but retail spending should still be strong?
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by nytesky 3y ago
How many are profitable companies? Roping in endless investment when backed by Thiel seems vs building a going concern. Thiel is bashing college, some of these kids have prestige academics to begin with. Luminar‘S founder attended one of t
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by nytesky 3y ago
Hah, who is going to report: I got paid too much.
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by nytesky 3y ago
You should look into how investment bankers bonus work. If bonus was actual profit sharing, I would agree that it would be a different thing more akin to a bet, but the bonus is contingent mostly on your personal “performance” with some bai
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by nytesky 3y ago
This will lead to universal low salaries, and real comp decided by bonuses and equity grants like with IB and Amazon. You don’t see full comp revealed, so since they have to show their hand it will trend down and make up the money for who t
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by nytesky 3y ago
Why didn’t we see any of that question dance dazzle on the stand? I can’t believe he was “I don’t remembering” in the instances Lewis was referring.
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by nytesky 3y ago
Honestly my completely outside the valley impression is that VC operates a lot on pedigree and connections. SBF has an impeccable pedigree, so the thought that he was a Michael Fenne type was never even considered. Why would he lie, when he

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